I always use "return 444" in the nginx config to stop crawlers that access my servers directly via IP or via the wrong hostname. It just closes the connection. Perfect.
Now I want to use this response instead of the standard 404.html pages that nginx throws, but I fail at configuring.
error_page 500 502 503 504 /custom_50x.html;This works fine, but I can't "return 444" like here:
server {listen 80;server_name "";return 444;}Does anybody know a way to combine these two?
Best Answer
Redirect request then you can return status code easily:
server {error_page 500 502 503 504 @blackhole;location @blackhole {return 444;}}Just wanted to add that using @blackhole named location raised Nginx's default 500 error page when certain weird requests were sent to the server (more details here), and thus the desired result (444) was not achieved.
I went around this by using the following notation instead:
error_page 301 400 403 404 500 502 503 504 =444 /444.html;location = /444.html {return 444;}Update: note that if the above block is itself inside a location block, the location path location = /444.html {… may prompt an Nginx error upon reload because Nginx requires it be a sub-location of the parent location block --> such as: location = [sub-location]/444.html {….